Name Game
Area blogger Sarah Rain wrote recently: The local youth softball outfit is called the Bethlehem Tomboys. This bothers me but I can’t quite articulate why. It could bother her because it’s an...
View ArticleDown The Bowl
At The Great Escape yesterday, we hit the sweet spot: a stretch of the day you could get on The Comet over and over again without standing on line. I can’t tell you how many times we went on the giant...
View ArticleMiracle Man
Have we exhausted the use of the word miracle yet? Yes, the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 was amazing and astounding and unprecedented —but a miracle? I’m not sure pilot Chesley B....
View ArticleThe Art of Conversation
We make a real effort to sit down for dinner on as many nights as possible, even when people are rushing off to the fire house, dog training, piano lessons, Boy Scouts, and the million other things...
View ArticleAnd Who is this Agnes Day, Anyway?
No really, I do pay attention in church —but for years I’ve been mystified by one of those songs they sing every week. It comes up right around the time they’re doing the whole breaking bread thing and...
View ArticleAnyone Can Whistle
I kinda swore that I would never coach soccer again, but guess what I’m doing this season? The soccer club sent out an appeal for volunteers last week saying they’d drop a team if they couldn’t find...
View ArticleOn Music Critics
The role of the music critic is to explain why things you love completely suck. The internet hasn’t changed that —and if anything it’s made it worse. It used to be that rock critics were fairly...
View ArticleMother's Day
Billy Collins served two terms as Poet Laureate of the United States and was the New York State Poet for 2004. His poem “The Lanyard” sums up Mother’s Day better than I could in a million years. Watch...
View ArticleTheater Review
Some things are best sent to the recycle bin, like the review of my 12-year-old’s school theater production of “Beauty and The Beast.” I thought it would be really, really funny to write about the show...
View ArticleHead Scratcher
I had a couple of bucks, so I asked the clerk at Stewart’s for a scratch off. Which one? I don’t know, pick me any of one of those two dollars tickets. Back in the car I grab a nickel and start...
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